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Australia will fall well short of 82 per cent renewable energy by 2030, analysts predict, as problems mount (www.abc.net.au)

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Plans by the federal government for Australia to generate more than four-fifths of its power from renewable sources by 2030 are coming under pressure amid claims the country is way off track.

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There are increasing suggestions Australia will fall short of its 2030 renewable power target of 82 per cent
Analysts predict Australia's share of renewable energy is on track to be about 60 per cent at the current rate of progress
The forecasts come amid mounting opposition to projects such as transmission lines in some parts of Australia

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For transmission (at least in NSW) there's a fair bit of bad blood because transgrid has a history of building unnecessary powerlines. They get paid on their asset base and were building a lot of powerlines that had no use in any reasonable projections, only in bullshit projections from transgrid.

That's now made it very hard for these projects to be done as there's a history of the bad projects that's pretty recent.

I'm not saying that these aren't necessary now, but it's no surprise people are opposing them with the history transgrid has.

For example they dumped a proposed Stroud to landsdowne powerline around 2012 after it was shown to be just the trying to increase their regulated asset base